Radiator.



PATENTED OCT. 29,.190'7.

V. LAGING.

RADIATOR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.19.1907.

II II I! H H H u u n n m A If ll Ii Ii H Witnesses vreron meme, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RADIATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented on. 29, 1907.

Application filed February 19. 1907- Serial No. 358.303.

To all whom it may concern:

r Be it known that I, VICTOR LACING, a citizen of the United States; and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiators for Automobiles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in radiators for automobiles, and consists in the novel arrangement, construction and combination of parts as will be fully hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to construct a radiator of extremely thin sheets of metal, and so folded as to provide strengthening ribs and arranged to support one another.

A further object of my invention is to provide a radiator in the front end of an automobile body providing a large cooling area for the water-used in'the water jacket of the automobile motor.

In the drawings: Figure 'l is a front view of my complete invention, showing it in position in the front end of an automobile body. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view of a portion of my radiator showing its construction. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective View of one of the coils of the radiator. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the one end of the lower or upper coil showing the supply or discharge pipe connected.

In the construction of my invention I provide a pinrality of coils 5 composed of thin sheets of material so bent and folded as to provide strengthening ribs (3, the ends 7 of said shccts being securely fastened in an clongatcd opening 8 lornn-d in the walls 9, illc cnds i0 and ii of the. lowcr and uppcr coils are conncctcd to a pipe 12 in any desirable manner, and the said pipes 12 are provided with an elongated iipcrlnrc l3 through which the water circulatcs into and out of the radiator. To the ends of said pipes may be atlachcd thc supply pipes or tubing as indicated by the numeral 14 in Fig. i, communicating with the tank and water jacket of the motor.

Against the walls 9 is attached by means of screws 15 a casing 16, being provided with a plurality of ribs 17 through which the screws 15 are passed and secured to the walls 9, and in said casing between said ribs are formed recesses 18 which act as elbows or passages for the water to pass from one coil to the other entering through the pipe in the lower coil and passing alternately through the coils and emptying into the pipe at the end of the upper coil.

The coils when placed together are so arranged as to have the strengthcning ribs 6 so arranged as to form air passages or channels 19 and yet permit the ends of said strengthening ribs to contact with the undersurface of the walls supporting the same.

In order to prevent leakage between the walls 9 and casing 16 I provide suitable packing material 20. The casing 16 is so arranged that when it is desired to clean the coils the same may be detached by removing the screws 15 and a swab inserted through the channels of each coil.

The edgesof the sheets formingthe coils are attached to stiffening frames 21 consisting of elongated metal boxes extending from wall to wall and the adjoining edges of the sheets and frame being hermetically sealed 1. A device of the class described comprising a plu-.

rality of coils formed of bent sheets, the bends acting as strengthening ribs, walls supporting the ends of said coils, a "islng located on each end and secured to the walls, said casings provided with passages for directing lhe circulation or? the water, and stiflfening frames connected to the edges of the coils and supported by the walls. substantially as specified.

.5. A radiator for automobiles, comprising a plurality ofcoils formed of thin sheeting material, the sheets so bent us in provide strengthening rihs whereby each coil supports the oihcr. walls supporting the ends of said coils, a. dciuchuhle casing secured to each wall for directing the circulation of the water through the coils, and n. stiifenw ing frame forming the edges ot the coils, substantially as speciiied.

Ii. A radiator for automobiles, comprising coils, end walls. casings, and stiilening frames, suid coils constructed or thin sheets, strengthening ribs formed by folding the sheets and arranged to form air channels when the coils are placed together, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I hnv signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

vic'ron memo.

Witnesses:

Amman A. EICKS, War/run C. S'rnm. 

